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discocrisco01
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May 20, 2012
PALO ALTO, Calif. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to married on Saturday.
Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home, capping a busy week for the couple, according to a guest authorized to speak for the couple. The person spoke only on the condition of anonymity.
Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, on Monday, the same day Zuckerberg turned 28, the person said.
The couple met at Harvard and have been together for more than nine years, the person said.
Zuckerberg designed the ring featuring a very simple ruby, according to the person who gave the following characterization of the wedding.
The ceremony took place in Zuckerbergs backyard before fewer than 100 guests, who all thought they were there to celebrate Chans graduation.
Even after the IPO, Zuckerberg remains Facebooks single largest shareholder, with 503.6 million shares. And he controls the company with 56 percent of its voting stock.
The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago, has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people.
Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard in 2004.
He was named as Times Person of the Year in 2010, at age 26
He must be in bliss knowing that he made billions and billions of dollars and is now married. If I were Mark Zuckerburg, he should have a gotten a prenuptial agreement with all of the assets that he has.
Mark Zuckerburg Ties The Knot
Today, one of the richest men in America is becomes a married man
PALO ALTO, Calif. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to married on Saturday.
Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home, capping a busy week for the couple, according to a guest authorized to speak for the couple. The person spoke only on the condition of anonymity.
Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, on Monday, the same day Zuckerberg turned 28, the person said.
The couple met at Harvard and have been together for more than nine years, the person said.
Zuckerberg designed the ring featuring a very simple ruby, according to the person who gave the following characterization of the wedding.
The ceremony took place in Zuckerbergs backyard before fewer than 100 guests, who all thought they were there to celebrate Chans graduation.
Even after the IPO, Zuckerberg remains Facebooks single largest shareholder, with 503.6 million shares. And he controls the company with 56 percent of its voting stock.
The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago, has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people.
Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard in 2004.
He was named as Times Person of the Year in 2010, at age 26
He must be in bliss knowing that he made billions and billions of dollars and is now married. If I were Mark Zuckerburg, he should have a gotten a prenuptial agreement with all of the assets that he has.
May 19, 2012
I started writing this as a post after reading the Smirking Chimp article about a pregnant woman being tased in front of her child 3 times because she did not sign a traffic ticket. Then, in the article, I read about a nine-year-old and a six-year-old being tased by police also for simple non-compliance when no threat was present. So, I began thinking this through.
Just what on earth would cause a policeperson or someone in authority want to cause excruciating pain for another person who is no threat whatsoever to him or her?
I conclude that police, and others who torture someone who is no threat to them whatsoever are basically bullies. In the back of his or her mind, the cop who even desires to torture a child or an old woman or a black person or a homeless person or a prostitute, who is already down and under control, is a bully, and this cop gets his or her jollies by creating suffering in his or her "lessers."
Now, the terms lesser and betters are important here. This is the perspective held by people who can easily fit themselves into a social order hierarchy where they accept, without question, the status of people above and below themselves. In their minds, some people are worthy and good, while others are less. In their minds, less becomes associated with bad or unimportant or insignificant, and when they look at themselves in this hierarchical mental structure, they find that they too become insignificant in relation to those who are above them in this hierarchy. And, with this realization, comes a feeling of hopelessness and disempowerment. One of the first things basic military training does for recruits is to break them down psychologically, and make them realize through a series of punishments that they are the lesser in the military hierarchy, and that they are good only in relation to doing the will of the organizational hierarchy. To think and do otherwise is unacceptable and bad. Next, they are trained in the thinking of the organization to comply and to work to achieve its aims without question. Well, many police officers come from this background and most police departments have a paramilitary organizational training and organizations also.
My question: When does line between the military and the police cross the line?
Polices As Bullies
The Smirking Chimp reports
I started writing this as a post after reading the Smirking Chimp article about a pregnant woman being tased in front of her child 3 times because she did not sign a traffic ticket. Then, in the article, I read about a nine-year-old and a six-year-old being tased by police also for simple non-compliance when no threat was present. So, I began thinking this through.
Just what on earth would cause a policeperson or someone in authority want to cause excruciating pain for another person who is no threat whatsoever to him or her?
I conclude that police, and others who torture someone who is no threat to them whatsoever are basically bullies. In the back of his or her mind, the cop who even desires to torture a child or an old woman or a black person or a homeless person or a prostitute, who is already down and under control, is a bully, and this cop gets his or her jollies by creating suffering in his or her "lessers."
Now, the terms lesser and betters are important here. This is the perspective held by people who can easily fit themselves into a social order hierarchy where they accept, without question, the status of people above and below themselves. In their minds, some people are worthy and good, while others are less. In their minds, less becomes associated with bad or unimportant or insignificant, and when they look at themselves in this hierarchical mental structure, they find that they too become insignificant in relation to those who are above them in this hierarchy. And, with this realization, comes a feeling of hopelessness and disempowerment. One of the first things basic military training does for recruits is to break them down psychologically, and make them realize through a series of punishments that they are the lesser in the military hierarchy, and that they are good only in relation to doing the will of the organizational hierarchy. To think and do otherwise is unacceptable and bad. Next, they are trained in the thinking of the organization to comply and to work to achieve its aims without question. Well, many police officers come from this background and most police departments have a paramilitary organizational training and organizations also.
My question: When does line between the military and the police cross the line?
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